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VLC has suddenly started playing my mp3's with great difficulty - 'stuttering'.

Windows Media and Media Player Classic still play them okay.

I updated to VLC 2 tonight to try fix it but found it happens with it, too.

Also found, after that hangup with VLC one, that my CPU was maxed out on rundll32.exe and it wouldn't go away, wouldn't end, just hung there maxing out the CPU.

I ended the task and then restarted rundll32 and watched it while I played a couple of mp3's with MPC and WinMedia and VLC and it did not and has not returned to the maxed out stage. So I don't know if that has any relevance or what.

Any clues?

p.s. I tried a couple of .flv's, too, and got the same result: stuttering audio. the video was alright. This is a major bummer. VLC has always been the one I turn to when all else fails: now all else works but not VLC ! Help !

Driver issue?

Driver? Excuse my ignorance but wouldn't any driver be shared by all audio players? And the others are doing fine.

I just read this but I think it applies to dual core CPU's and anyway my VLC has been running fine on my machine for months, years in fact, until now. http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3918

Prior to that i read a 'fix' that had me set the audio output module to Win32 Wave output. It certainly changed the behaviour but didn't fix it. The stutter now sounds more like a 'click' when an old 33rpm record needle goes across a scratch...